Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-02-03

THE oldest person in France, perhaps
in the whole world, is said to be woman
who lives in the village of Auberive, in
Royans. She was born March 1G, 1851,
and is therefore 125 years old. The au
thentic record of her birth is to be found
in the Jarish register of ST. Just de Claix
in the Department Of the Isere
QUEEN YIoToRns coach makers have
just renovated one of Her Majesty's six
stage coaches in preparation for the court
functions of the jubilee year. The door
handles and armorial bearings are OF
gold, az also are the crest and Order of
st. George upon the roof. The body of
the carriage is of vermillion, picked out
with gold, and the springs and all the
ironwork are gilt. Representations OF
the crown and garter are among the
adornments of the oquipage, which
is lined with blue silk. No fewer than
1000 leaves of gold were used in the
decoration.
THERE is now in the Museum of the
Royal College of Surgeons in London an
artificial log found in an ancient Roman
tomb at Capua in 1885. The vases dis
covered in the same tomb indicate that
the leg was used by a person who lived
about the year 800 b. G. This artificial
limb is made chiefly of pieces of thin
bronze fastened to a core of wood. few
pieces OF iron were also used in making
it, The skeleton TO which it belonged
was found entire, with the exception of
the leg that it replaced
THERg were eighty-one important
strikes throughout the country last year,
in forty of which the strikers failed al
together, while seventeen ended in a com
promise. About 100000 persons were at
one time or other on strike. The aggre-
gate losses to strikers or to employers
are unknown, but the former undoubted-
" lost moro than the latter. Last year was
not more favorable for strikes than the
average year, but the records os even the
best year show that strikes are costly and
clumsy methods Of conducting industrial
controversies.
FoRrY THOUSAND workingmen employed
in connection with the vessel interests in
and around the city of New York are en- a
rtI. melinda LONG hnra-
men, grain handlers, coal shoyelers grain
trimmers, bag sewers, caual-boatmen,
The great ocean steamships and all other
vessels in the harbor and alongshore are
detained in their docks in consequence.
The strike grew out of the refusal Of the
Old Dominion Steamship Company to
pay an advance to their oal.handlers, the
others striking in sympathy with them.
Tur inhabitants OF Humphrey, small
village near Olean, n. Y, are in great
state of excitement over the nocturnal
visits of huge panther. The hamlet is
situated in a valley completely surround
ests A large number of sheep, calves,
and hogs have been destroyed by the
panther, and several persons narrowly
escape with their lives. farmer named
Whitney was imprisoned ina small out
building one cold night and nearly froz-
on. The panther stood guard at the door
while devouring a sheep. Whitneys fam
lily heard his cries Tor assistance, but dar-
ed not venture out of the house. A church
congregation had assembled at the school
house one evening last week, was impris-
oned for three hours by the panther. All
the male inhabitants plucked up courage
the other day, and, armed with ancient
shotguns rusty rifles, and various weap-
ons, aud led by mongrel pack of dogs,
they hunted the panther. The dogs dis
covered the beast in rayine in the dense
woods. three miles from the village. He
took refuge in tall hemlock, but net
before he had killed two of the most
courageous ours. Then from safe dis
lance volley of musket balls and buck
shot was fired into the tree where the ami
NAL was partly hidden from sight. Some
of the balls took effects, and with a
scream of pain the panther fell to the
ground and soon expired. He measured
over eight feet from head to tail.